On this final week of 2023 we’re going run and run and run with Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in 2023’s Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning – Part 1, one might even say Dead Reckoning Part Run directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Mr. Cruise, Ving Rhames, Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klementieff, Cary Elwes, Esai Morales Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan, and Henry Czerny.
My two guests are my right hand men on The Blockbuster Crew: Utah’s own David Johnson, DMD and Burton Brown, State of Utah IT.
Before the mad dash to our opinion of this movie, the synopsis:
Ethan Hunt and his team of Mission Impossiblers have to go rogue yet again to stop the world from yada yada yada. Same old crap megalomaniac with a weapon this time it’s AI. Or something. Esai Morales is involved. I fell asleep twice so I didn’t quite catch the relationship between the AI and Morales’ Gabriel character.
This movie seemed like more of the same old same old. But as a Tom Cruise running movie, it’s a masterpiece, reaching an operatic Death in Venice level of running sophistication.
But me go further: This is the biggest offender in “The Each Sequel Feels Like the Exact Same Thing Every Time --Except More of It” category.
In fact the whole series is the worst, far worse than James Bond.
Followed by:
Bourne Identity
X-Men
Recent Planet of the Apes movies and
Harry Potter
Am I right?
On your mark!
Get Set!
Run!